An excellent examination of post-war Germany's remorse over how militarism plunged the country into a war that killed so many of its sons, and how a former enemy become one of those "sons."

Extraordinarily moving plea for pacifism and forgiveness

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French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.

Ernst Lubitsch

Broken Lullaby

Lubitsch&apos;s Only Talkie Non-Comedy Film

Cited as Ernst Lubitsch&apos;s darkest film, the post-World War One movie, January 1932&apos;s &quot;Broken Lullaby,&quot; is about a French soldier, Paul Renard (Phillip Holmes), who carries a guilt of killing a German attempting to surrender. He&apos;s so depressed about his mistake he decides to reveal to the deceased parents in Germany he was their son&apos;s killer. Things get a bit complicated when he meets the late soldier&apos;s fiancee, Fraulein Elsa (Nancy Carroll).

Originally released as &apos;The Man I Killed,&quot; it was met by a tepid response from the New York City preview audience. Cutting the heavy drama by 15 minutes didn&apos;t quite improve its appeal. But a modern-day reassessment of Lubitsch&apos;s only talkie non-comedy has raised the opinion on the ambitious movie. Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum praised &quot;Broken Lullaby&quot; as &quot;one of the most piercing and cinematically supple of all of Lubitsch&apos;s films.&quot;

Cited as Ernst Lubitsch's darkest film, the post-World War One movie, January 1932's "Broken Lullaby," is about a French soldier, Paul Renard (Phillip Holmes), who carries a guilt of killing a German attempting to surrender. He's so depressed about his mistake he decides to reveal to the deceased parents in Germany he was their son's killer. Things get a bit complicated when he meets the late soldier's fiancee, Fraulein Elsa (Nancy Carroll).

Originally released as 'The Man I Killed," it was met by a tepid response from the New York City preview audience. Cutting the heavy drama by 15 minutes didn't quite improve its appeal. But a modern-day reassessment of Lubitsch's only talkie non-comedy has raised the opinion on the ambitious movie. Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum praised "Broken Lullaby" as "one of the most piercing and cinematically supple of all of Lubitsch's films."

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